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comical

[kom-i-kuhl]

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adjective

producing laughter; amusing; funny: a comical fellow.

Obsolete. pertaining to or of the nature of comedy.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see comic, -al¹

Related forms

com·i·cal·i·ty, com·i·cal·ness, noun

com·i·cal·ly, adverb

non·com·i·cal, adjective

non·com·i·cal·ly, adverb

non·com·i·cal·ness, noun

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non·com·i·cal·i·ty, noun

qua·si-com·i·cal, adjective

qua·si-com·i·cal·ly, adverb

sem·i·com·i·cal, adjective

sem·i·com·i·cal·ly, adverb

un·com·i·cal, adjective

un·com·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Can be confused: comedic, comic, comical.

Synonyms
1. See amusing.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

The machines are not digitally programmed computers but, as the dryly comical exhibition catalog.

Among a bunch of other issues which are comical in retrospect.

To a comical degree, that lesson is being ignored by the.

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Among a bunch of other issues which are comical in retrospect.

To a comical degree, that lesson is being ignored by the.

Some of the debris and damage left by the tsunami is almost comical.

With the bugs, they're so strange and far out, they're comical.

Parker's record as a cop fell somewhere between pathetic and comical.

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He's always been a comical man, instantly likable to all.

Comical yet sad that the crisis is so absurd that such jokes can be made.

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It was almost comical to see these clones rushing around.

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Their diminutive sizes makes the bodies look rather comical when the larger lenses are affixed.

It is a character that hauntingly emerges out of a disarmingly comical film.

It's pretty comical really, everyone's playing the system.

Its almost sad, yet comical to think gold will ever rival paper money.

They also find themselves called heroes and this of course leads to all kinds of comical chaos.

We begin with a comical attempt to get him to pronounce my name correctly, which takes about a minute, and never quite succeeds.

It based its findings on the comical observation that.

Govt must be blamed for not taking action on this front and not for some comical reasons.

Sujang goes into a comical dance, shaking his shoulders slinkily and wiggling his hips.

The comical result is that they're all racing each other to the bottom, so for now, savers are still coming out okay.

The held bodies tend to be more expressive and sometimes even comical.

It is almost comical that his departing poetic sentiment is not shared by many.

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But chulipa and dormente are comical in their specialized usage.

Either that or he is illustrating the comical folly of crude and erroneous extrapolation of math/physics onto social studies.

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World English Dictionary

comical (ˈkɒmɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	causing laughter
2.	ludicrous; laughable

'comically

—*adv*

'comicalness

—n

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Word Origin & History

comical

mid-15c., "comic," from comic + -al (1). Meaning "funny" is from 1680s.

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